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Example sentences for "gutted"

Lexicographically close words:
guter; gutes; guts; gutta; guttae; gutter; gutteral; guttered; guttering; gutters
  1. It had been gutted by fire, while the pleasant little terrasse beside the river was heaped with the debris of fallen walls.

  2. In others, walls stood gaunt and blackened where the fire had gutted them, causing roofs and windows to fall in.

  3. The town of Mill Hall was completely gutted by the flood, entailing heavy loss upon the inhabitants.

  4. The smoke of the gutted kahveh had dwindled to a wisp in the distance behind us, and there was no sight or sound of pursuit.

  5. Once, as we turned into a track that they told us led to El Oghlu, we saw on a hill to our left a small square building, gutted by fire.

  6. All that we knew was that we had gutted whole mountains and hills in the operations.

  7. More apt to go empty-gutted there, if you believe me!

  8. The Dutch churches have, for the most part, been completely gutted of their ancient Catholic fittings, but S.

  9. At Le Novion, torch in hand, they burned 223 houses; but all the gutted walls are standing.

  10. In their most destructive moods, it is charged that they used these devices to destroy the standing walls of houses and cottages after they had been gutted by fire.

  11. Scarcely anything of value was found lying about the different rooms; these had been already gutted and the contents destroyed by the soldiers, both European and native, who, since the day of assault, had roamed about the city.

  12. Were our houses to be gutted and burnt before our eyes without any attempt to prevent such outrage?

  13. Suddenly, as he glimpsed the man sprawled on the great rock, his narrow face blanched as if gutted of blood; a look of savage ferocity leaped into his eyes; and his hand strayed back to the heavy horse pistol slung from the saddle.

  14. The minister took them himself, carried them to the kitchen, and shutting himself up with the cook, she gutted them, and put them on the fire, as she had done the four others the day before.

  15. The business part of the town, as well as part of the residences, had been gutted by fire.

  16. My place was built of concrete, masonry, and tiles, and so had escaped being burned, but it was gutted clean.

  17. Other descriptions indicate that the courthouse was loopholed,[88] the furnishings were removed, and the interior generally was gutted so that only the walls and roof remained.

  18. Illustration: Interior of the gutted courthouse during restoration in 1966.

  19. I think you've gutted the Rajput field command in the Imperial army.

  20. He pulled the attacker around and with a flash of steel gutted him silently with a savage upward thrust.

  21. London was on his side; the mob gutted Palliser's house and broke the windows of the admiralty and of some official residences.

  22. Hargreaves had his house gutted and his loom destroyed, and in 1799 a violent riot broke out about Blackburn; Arkwright's works were burnt, and many machines in the neighbourhood were broken to pieces.

  23. It was through this little throng that the mother-child and Kirsteen passed into the fast-being-gutted cottage.

  24. A little further they saw, at some distance, two cottages in a row, both gutted and emptied.

  25. To know their fate needed but a glance at the miserable, shattered, gutted fragment of the inn that stood.

  26. Then the dawn snagged on the metal ribbon that arced over the trees, and webs of shadow from the immense supporting pylons fell across the few, gutted lava beds that dotted the forest.

  27. Beyond the jungle were the gutted fields of lava and dead earth, and it was here that the strange metal tetron was discovered.

  28. Only quaggas and yaks and other iron-gutted creatures like myself can stand Albania.

  29. If it were blasted by shells and gutted by fire, we might regret it, but what would be our feelings if it were the legacy of Edward the First, and had been handed down to us intact through six centuries?

  30. Houses, shops, banks, churches, all gutted by the flames and destroyed.

  31. Turchin's brigade preceded us, and has gutted many houses.

  32. Iron girders are being fitted into the gutted depths of old shop-fronts, and with foundations and framework it is marvellous how speedily old houses are built up.

  33. Here is a house with gutted entrails half congealed and terrible to behold.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gutted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ashen; blistered; consumed; parched; scorched; seared; sunburned